Syria

Germany is forcing people displaced by the Syrian war to get documents and hand over money at Syrian consulates loyal to Bashar Assad. Refugee advocates say this is inhumane and supports the brutal Assad regime.

When a community football team needs recruits and a group of refugees needs a new home, they turn out to be a perfect fit. But first, there is ignorance and fear and prejudice to be overcome. That’s the basis of an Australian film featured in this year’s Global Migration Film Festival. The theme of building understanding through sports works well on screen, but in a climate of growing Islamophobia, how well does it work in reality?

A 24-year-old has been given a multi-year prison term for goading his dogs to attack a Syrian family in Magdeburg. The man also allegedly attacked other people, including those with foreign backgrounds, in recent months.

Hossam was born deaf and mute in Syria. Later, as a Syrian refugee in Austria he decided his disability would not stand in the way of his job prospects. Today he works as a technician for an electronics giant in Vienna.

The Italian Development Cooperation has launched a project designed to improve the lives of Syrian refugees in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. Targeting women and children in particular, the plan aims to empower and protect Syrian families and assist them with their economic empowerment as well.

Migrants of working age make up 4.2 percent of the global population, and the number is growing. A UN report notes how poorer countries are increasingly supplying labor to richer ones to their own detriment.

When Razan Alsous and her family came to the UK as migrants in 2014, they didn't know what they would do for work in their new homes. Four years later, they own one of the fastest-growing cheese companies in the UK.

A hopeful to replace German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the head of the Christian Democrats had called for Syrian refugees who commit crimes in Germany to be deported. Germany's interior minister disagrees.

The UN says countries aren't doing enough to integrate a growing number of refugee children into their national education systems. A new report has revealed that Germany alone requires tens of thousands of new teachers.

In 2016, 12-year-old Zain Al Rafeea was working as a delivery boy on the streets of Beirut when he was discovered by a famous Lebanese film director. After starring in her film Capernaum, he and his family were recently relocated to Norway with the help of the UNHCR.